Need three extra days a year?

What would I do with three  more days this year?  How can you actually gain three days a year?  Or how about a whole extra week?
Here’s one suggestion:  quit Facebook.  (I’m not going to do it, but it can become a big time waster if  we aren’t careful)
(HT: Challies)

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Babel’s tower, my schedule, and saving time

I read these two entries this week and they meshed perfectly together.  They also were very helpful in my life–and very timely this week (and it seems like nearly every week).  Can any of your relate?
“We are all expert planners, are we not? Those people [the builders of Babel’s Tower] were planners. They drew the [...]

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Self-control in a wired world

Josh Harris:
Yesterday I preached a sermon about self-control from Proverbs 25:28 that says, “A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.” I focused on the issue of media, the internet, and today’s new technologies. I don’t think I’m the only person who would identify this as an area where [...]

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On death, sloth, and emerging

Death: J. C. Ryle tells us what we need when we die.
Sloth: John Ortberg writes, “Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done —like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.” (HT:  Josh Harris, see Issac Watts poem on sloth here).
Nathan Busenitz wonders “how emergent was [...]

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Using time on-line for God’s glory

Hope this article doesn’t distract you too much from what you are doing, but it will probably strike a nerve in many of us who use the internet at all.  The article defines a common problem (digital distraction) and offers some practical solutions–the ultimate one being “self-control”–which for the Christian is part of the [...]

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Redeeming your time

“How many of you have too much time and not enough to do in it?”
One man has asked hundreds of people this question and no one has said, “I have enough time.” So he offers this practical plan that takes 18 minutes a day.  (Hopefully if I have enough time I might try it tomorrow!)

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How much TV is costing you?

Matt point out it,
It’s amazing the amount you can accomplish when you find an extra 3,285 hours to work on something you enjoy doing rather than vegging in front of the TV. Those hours helped us create a small network of websites and blogs which allowed both of us to quit our jobs and work [...]

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A few words of prayer

C. J. Mahaney explains his practice of slaying pride, self-sufficiency and anxiety in the midst of a busy day:
As I make my way from meeting to meeting, decision to decision, and phone call to phone call, I find the counsel of Charles Spurgeon very helpful. “I always feel it well,” he wrote, “to put a [...]

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Is your “to-do” list done?

C. J. Mahaney reminds us (I need this on a Monday and every day):
“Only God gets his to-do list done each day. “
This simple sentence informs how I begin my day, what I expect to accomplish during the day, and how I close each day.
When I step out of my office and turn the light [...]

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Tyranny of the urgent

Charles Hummel wrote a classic article back in 1967 that has impacted many lives.  He starts off by writing:
Have you ever wished for a thirty-hour day?  Surely this extra time would relieve the tremendous pressure under which we live.  Our lives leave a trail of unfinished tasks.  Unanswered letters, unvisited friends, unwritten articles, and unread [...]

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